Summary:
Photographs feature a diverse array of subjects, but main subjects are designers Charles and Ray Eames, friends (including children), family, and colleagues (including a few images of Gregory Ain and family) at various sites, mostly in California. Images include informal portraits, some possibly created for promotional purposes, and a few for their 1946 Christmas card showing reflection of Charles and Ray in a Christmas ornament. Other persons and events featured: personal vacation trips, including honeymoon trip with Billy and Audrey Wilder to Lake Tahoe, California, and Virginia City, Nevada, trips to Colorado and Arizona, including images of a trading post with Native American crafts; and Lucia Eames and friends, some featuring Christine Meyer dancing. Also includes images created and used to explore design elements--shape, structure, and texture--in nature, objects, and constructions, such as: seaweed and sea gulls at the beach, trees (with close-ups of branches, bark, leaves, and seeds), plants, flowers, human ears and eyes, sculpture, buildings under construction, pilings and piers, stacks of bricks, a wire rat trap and dress form, and constructions by Buckminster Fuller. Many images taken on beach, Santa Monica, California. Also features Eames projects, including images of the future site of Case Study Houses, and models for Case Study House No. 8 ("Bridge" version), Case Study House No. 9, and house for Billy Wilder; Ray's fabric designs: "Dot Pattern" and "Sea Things;" package and door graphic for Charles' daughter, Lucia; and a birthday card for John Entenza. Also includes images of proposal and models for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial competition.

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